The problem is with accelaration. What should I do to improve accelaration without hurting my mpg?

A useful solution: avoid it as much as possible.

(I'm not being a smart ***.)

To avoid accelerating, you need to try as hard as possible to maintain the momentum you built up the last time you burned all that gas accelerating.

- Keep looking well ahead and try to time lights and traffic situations so you can keep moving when you get there.

- "Play the accordion" in heavy stop and go (or slow n go) traffic: you're just approaching the car ahead of you as he pulls away again. Let him go, maintain your speed, and you catch up to him next time he brakes. You try to drive at his average speed, but without the fluctuations. Yes, people will cut in the space you leave in front of you. No big deal.

- Don't accelerate any more than you need to.

- In other words, try as hard as you can to avoid using the brakes when possible. Brake dust = wasted fuel, wasted acceleration.

To avoid accelerating, you need to try as hard as possible to maintain the momentum you built up the last time you burned all that gas accelerating.

- Keep looking well ahead and try to time lights and traffic situations so you can keep moving when you get there.

- "Play the accordion" in heavy stop and go (or slow n go) traffic: you're just approaching the car ahead of you as he pulls away again. Let him go, maintain your speed, and you catch up to him next time he brakes. You try to drive at his average speed, but without the fluctuations. Yes, people will cut in the space you leave in front of you. No big deal.

- Don't accelerate any more than you need to.

- In other words, try as hard as you can to avoid using the brakes when possible. Brake dust = wasted fuel, wasted acceleration.

I'm sure others will chime in with advice....

This is what i've been doing lately. let them others trip the light while i'm crusing behind them not havong to touch the brake pedal.

what kind of acceleration do you mean? like when starting out? or once your rolling? i have my SG gauge set for rpm's so i know when i'm on teh gas any. i try to kepe rpm's constant and notice it change my mpg reading as well when it shoiw i'm acclerating but i can't tell except for the sg showing me.